Chapter 23

The rest of Cassie’s week, just as Daniel had predicted, had actually gone a lot better. The main reason the week had gone on so smoothly was that Felix hadn’t been around for most of the time. He had a series of meetings to attend on the other side of the country so Cassie was mostly left to herself. It wasn’t entirely that she was free to do whatever she wanted in the office or to completely slack off as she still had to come to work during those days.

No matter how early she got to work, Felix always arrived before her. She would walk in with his cup of black coffee to find him in front of his laptop or bent over numerous files. He would accept the coffee without a word and then she would go to her corner to begin work for the day; mostly answering phone calls and confirming appointments. Sometime around ten, Felix would leave the office to take the company’s jet to his meeting all the way in Washington. Once, he didn’t return back to Tech Town until it was almost time f